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Fredonia (Biscoe) is a town in Prairie County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 476 at the 2000 census. Local myth claimed the town's name "Fredonia" was for the Republic of Fredonia movement of Mexican Texas in the 1820's by a group of Arkansas Cherokee Indians settled near Nacogdoches, Texas. The settlers backed by white Southerners from the U.S. wanted to establish an independent Indian nation but the dream ended in an armed conflict by Mexican troops. "Biscoe" is the town's official name for most of its history , being written in parenthesis and was founded in the 1810's by several thousand Cherokee settlers from Tennessee in a piece of land set aside for the Western band of Cherokee but lost their sovereignty when Arkansas became a state in 1836. But the town has an Afri...
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